Too long. Too much CGI. Legolas defies gravity. But Benedict Cumberbatch as a talking dragon? That is pure cinema. The barrel scene is a 2.0. The Smaug scenes are a 5.0. The 48fps High Frame Rate gave everyone a headache. Average: 3.6.
In the vast ocean of cinema, a tidal wave of content hits streaming platforms every week. We are accustomed to the binary extremes: the 9.0 masterpiece that critics hail as "genre-defining" and the 2.0 disaster that becomes a viral joke on Twitter. But there is a strange, fertile ground for debate in the middle. Specifically, there is the strange case of . 3.6 movies
A heavy reliance on scores (like the works of Philip Glass) to drive emotion. Too long